Courthouse News: Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
Invoking America’s Founding Fathers, the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the outsized influence of the sugar industry over island politics, Hawaii lawmakers on Friday passed a first-in-the-nation bill to strip corporations of the power to spend money in state elections.
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@BruneElections Democrats eliminate the filibuster to pass a gerrymander ban in 2029. Then we’ll see if the GOP tries to undo it whenever they control government again.
All of us, regardless of our politics should condemn a leader, any leader, who traffics in this kind of content, who is so blatantly racist, who is so bluntly unkind. This shocks me and it should shock us all.
Can Hawaii’s century-old displacement crisis be solved with off-the-grid DIY living? At 61, De MONT Manaole is determined to find out. @JeremyYurow https://t.co/9h8aUR4UF3
A president, not yet a dictator, told the nation in his first address that he wouldn’t let the country’s media to be turned into “outlets for disinformation and a means of waging war against the state.” That was Putin on July 8, 2000. Sound familiar? Read my latest 👇
President Trump says he is firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the weak jobs data.
BLS puts out the jobs reports, CPI inflation, productivity and employment cost index, among other key statistics.
This is basically unprecedented and will raise concerns about US data integrity going forward.
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